Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bert Lahr, a mighty available Jones around all channels these days, blinked and "poo-poo-pa-dooed" through some excruciating jokes ("Are you Ivy?" "It's crawlin' all over me") and brayed his inimitable full-octave singing quaver. Digging into Broadway's attic of old goodies, Omnibus borrowed Lend an Ear's funny, picture-hatted Gladiola ("Skiddy, give me some hooch") Girl and a rollicking Prohibition Era chorus line to vamp the Long Island playboys...
Still in its first season, The Charles St. Theater is proving itself one of the finest off-Broadway playhouses--finer than a great many of the increasingly slick off-Broadway theaters in New York...
...Broadway offered double bills by two talked-about playwrights...
Died. Margaret Anglin, 81, sad-eyed, Junoesque tragedienne, one of the greats of the American stage; in Toronto. Born in the Canadian House of Parliament (where her father, as Speaker of the House of Commons, had quarters), Actress Anglin began in a bit part on Broadway, achieved fame overnight in 1898 as Roxanne in Richard Mansfield's production of Cyrano de Bergerac, made her greatest popular success (in 1906) in William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide...
...this obviously is not all. Look Homeward, Angel, a play that demands comparison with Winesburg, is one of the most powerful, touching dramas to have reached Broadway in years. And Look Homeward, Angel is also based on a famous novel about a sensitive young man's growing and groaning in a small town...